# Do we require licence to enable xpack.security feature **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** license\ **Created:** [October 22, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-require-licence-to-enable-xpack-security-feature/287427 "2021-10-22T10:32:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mohammed.sabil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@mohammed.sabil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohammed.sabil)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-require-licence-to-enable-xpack-security-feature/287427/1 "2021-10-22T10:32:53Z")
Hello Team, I just wanted to know, If I wanted to use the alerting, monitoring and user administration RBAC feature in ELK stack. Do I require a license for the same? I also wanted to know, if I would like to do integration of a tool with ELK stack in that case also do we require a license? As today I tried to enable the xpack.security.enable=true in docker-compose of ELK i am getting error message "License is required" Please do let me know on this. Regards, Sabil. ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-require-licence-to-enable-xpack-security-feature/287427/2 "2021-10-22T13:47:50Z")
Hi @mohammed.sabil What version of the Elasticsearch are you using? Basic security has been Free for quite some time. You can see the features and license matrix [here](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) ---
**Author:** ![mohammed.sabil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@mohammed.sabil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohammed.sabil)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-require-licence-to-enable-xpack-security-feature/287427/3 "2021-10-23T07:43:24Z")
@stephenb thank you for the information. Sometimes means 14 days. Right? Regards, Sabil ---
**Author:** ![mohammed.sabil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@mohammed.sabil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohammed.sabil)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-require-licence-to-enable-xpack-security-feature/287427/4 "2021-10-23T09:25:04Z")
When I make xpack.security.enable is true.. Still getting an error message that unable to retrieve the licence server information Can you please suggest? Sabil. ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-require-licence-to-enable-xpack-security-feature/287427/5 "2021-10-23T14:17:24Z")
Where are you seeing that error? That error can be seen when security is improperly configured for Kibana and / or Elasticsearch. Proper security configuration is more than just that one setting. I suggest you read and carefully follow the documentation here. > **[Configure security for the Elastic Stack | Elasticsearch Guide \[7.15\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/configuring-stack-security.html)** I have also constructed a complete walkthrough here with all the essential steps for a single note and Kibana > ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-require-licence-to-enable-xpack-security-feature/287427/6 "2021-11-20T14:17:37Z")
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